Publishing This Week: Anuradha Roy, Gabrielle Zevin, Katherine J. Chen and Morgan Talty

Publishing This Week

Hello,

This week’s fourteen new and notable books include four that we’ll be featuring in the coming weeks with our own reviews and Beyond the Book articles: The Earthspinner from Booker-Prize nominated Anuradha Roy; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (who you may remember particularly for The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry); Joan, in which Katherine J. Chen brings to life the epic life of Joan of Arc; and Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty, a debut story collection set in a Native community in Maine.

I’ve included 10 books below, and you’ll find all fourteen in our Publishing This Week section.

Enjoy!

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher

This Week's New and Notable Books

There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.

The Earthspinner: A Novel
by Anuradha Roy

On sale Jul 5 from Harper Via
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political upheaval.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
by Gabrielle Zevin

On sale Jul 5 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends - often in love, but never lovers - come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

Fellowship Point: A Novel
by Alice Elliott Dark

On sale Jul 5 from Marysue Rucci Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 592 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century.

Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc
by Katherine J. Chen

On sale Jul 5 from Random House
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? From the acclaimed author of Mary B comes a stunning, secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc.

Night of the Living Rez
by Morgan Talty

Debut Author
On sale Jul 5 from Tin House Books
Genre: Short Stories. 296 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.

Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories
by Meng Jin

On sale Jul 5 from Mariner Books
Genre: Short Stories. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the acclaimed author of Little Gods, whose "gift merges science, politics and art: the kind of audacity our world needs now" (Gina Apostol), comes an immersive and electrifying story collection that explores self-construction, female resilience, and migrations both literal and transformative.

Hawk Mountain: A Novel
by Conner Habib

Debut Author
On sale Jul 5 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder.

Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World
by Mark Vanhoenacker

On sale Jul 5 from Knopf
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

This love letter to the cities of the world - from the airline pilot–author of Skyfaring - is "a journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energized, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives" (Alain de Botton, author of The Art of Travel).

This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
by Nate Schweber

On sale Jul 5 from Mariner Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The untold story of the extraordinary fight to defend American wilderness from McCarthyism, and the radical couple who led the charge - and inspired a future of conservation

Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust
by Jerry Stahl

On sale Jul 5 from Akashic Books
Genre: Travel & Adventure. 264 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humor.

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